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The heat might have arrived, but the usual lull in fishing that generally comes with it has not, at least for those who know when and where to fish.

Those fishing for striped bass along the South Shore have been fishing early and late, staying away from the heat of the day. While fishing for stripers has fallen off a bit, bluefish, fluke and porgy fishing remains hot.

The offshore anglers continue to find good action both at the shelf and inshore at the 30 fathom curve. Bigeyes and yellowfins are coming from both Hudson Canyon and the Dip, while the bluefins are still on the move but closer inshore at the Bacardi Wreck.

There have been some big sharks caught the past few weeks, the latest being a 410-pound tiger that was tagged and released south of Shinnecock. There also are some exotics like mahi mahi being taken just 20 miles from the beaches.

Locally, fluke numbers continue to impress, even though you have to get through a bunch of shorts for a couple of keepers.

Sheepshead Bay anglers found summer flatties in close to the beaches chasing bait. In Jamaica Bay, the snappers are in, and you also will find a good numbers of blue claw crabs as well. At the Rockaway Reef fishermen are picking at sea bass and porgies.

The best porgy fishing is still in Long Island Sound along with big bluefish. The rental fleet from City Island has been loading up on scup and some of these fish are close to 20 inches — that’s a big porgy. Anglers fishing from party or charter boats are getting arm weary diamond jigging for choppers to 15 pounds.

From Jones Inlet to Fire Island and Moriches Inlets you will find the fluking much better on the Oceanside rather than in the bays, at least as far as keepers are concerned. All the local bays have snapper blues right and they are great fun to catch for the kids.

Good porgy fishing in the Peconics along the South Race and off Robins Island. On the Sound side of the North Fork you will find porgies and striped bass along with the bluefish. Some nice size stripers were caught at Horton’s Point and in the Gut off Orient.

Montauk boats are still finding good numbers of striped bass in the rips off the Lighthouse as well as over at Cartwright. The fluking is decent and sea bass fishing has been going well, thank you.